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PocketBase is an open-source Go backend that ships as a single portable executable. It includes an embedded SQLite database with realtime subscriptions, built-in file and user management, a convenient admin dashboard UI, and a simple REST-ish API.
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# PocketBase Open Source Realtime Backend in a Single Binary
PocketBase is an open-source Go backend that ships as a single portable executable. It includes an embedded SQLite database with realtime subscriptions, built-in file and user management, a convenient admin dashboard UI, and a simple REST-ish API.
## Installation
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- **JavaScript - [pocketbase/js-sdk](https://github.com/pocketbase/js-sdk)** (_Browser, Node.js, React Native_)
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Once downloaded, extract the archive and run ./pocketbase serve in the extracted directory.
- Here is a minimal example:
- To init the dependencies, run go mod init myapp && go mod tidy.
- Source: https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/HEAD/README.md
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